Henna Inspired Designs

Central Focus (7th Grade)

Students will be learning history of henna tattoos and the foundations of henna design.  Students will be applying what they know about foundations of henna and their composition skills to make a henna design painting.

Lesson Rational and Summary

The lesson rational is for students to connect history to modern tattoo art.  Students will be able to learn the history to henna tattoos, and how the foundation of design to elaborate henna tattoos.

The lesson summary is that students will be introduced to henna and the history through a power point presentation and activities to help students gain an understanding of how to start a henna tattoo.  Students will be presented with 2 design challenges and learn about the different kinds of henna tattoos.

With the practice in design challenges and some general background knowledge, students will be asked to watercolor paper shades of yellow or red.  The students will use brown paint to start their henna design.

Lesson Objectives and Standards

Objectives

·      Introduce students to a new culture

·      Introduce students to culture and traditions

·      Introduce students to henna design and pattern

Standard

2RE Compare and contrast diverse viewpoints about works of art.

Lesson Materials

·      PowerPoint

·      Projector

·      Henna hand outs

·      Henna practice hand out

·      Watercolor paper

·      Water colors

Procedure:

·      Step 1: Power Point

o   Slide 1

§  Ask students what they know about henna

o   Slide 2

§  What is henna made from?

o   Slide 3

§  The Process

·      How do henna tattoos work

o   Slide 4

o   What are the purposes for henna?

§  Marriages and births

·      Slide 6

o   What does Miss Gehres know so much?  (It helps that I'm a henna artist in the summer)

§  Worked at cedar point!

·      Slide 7

o   Draw the designs presented

§  Students will attempt to draw the designs that are on the slide

·      Slide 8

o   How did you draw the designs?

·      Slide 9

o   Miss Gehres’ trick is to start in the middle

·      Slide 10

o   Different kinds of tattoos

§  Organic

§  Radial

·      (Students will be given a work sheet with some basic designs as a warm up)

·      Slide 11

o   Go over the Assignment

·      Slide 12

o   Prompts

§  If you are using organic and radial designs

§  Flow of design and composition

§  Craftsmanship

§  Creativity

Procedure part 2:

I will be showing students two examples and students will be critiquing of how the project could have looked better. 

Explain to students to use a piece of sketch paper and play with some of the inpiring designs that they have seen and bounce ideas

Learners having difficulty

Ask students questions through out the presentation to see if they are picking up what needs to be learned.  Walking around and seeing if students are having difficulty, and see the best way to help the individual student

Student Examples

Issues that I had during lesson

1) I did this lesson before starting student teaching, so this lesson was an excellent guide of planning out every detail and not assuming that every student knows how to watercolor.

2) Before I truly understood assessment, I found myself constantly assessing my students and trying to help each student individually when it helped to address the whole class instead if it was a common problem.

3) I had students who did not have the self confidence to even start on making their own design, so constantly encourage students that they can do it!